Narciso Busquets

Acting

Narciso Busquets

Born 1931-09-08 · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Narciso Busquets (September 8, 1931 – December 14, 1989) was a Mexican actor of film, television, theater, radio, and voice-over. He also directed a film, Sin fortuna, in 1980. Busquets started his acting career in 1937, as a child actor, and appeared as one of Cantinflas' sons in Ahí está el detalle. He also dubbed the voice of Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune in Spanish in the film Animas Trujano, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Among his other contributions in film are El gallo de oro with Ignacio López Tarso and Lucha Villa, Los cuatro Juanes with Luis Aguilar, Pedro Páramo with John Gavin, La soldadera with Silvia Pinal, Jesús, nuestro Señor with Claudio Brook, and Valente Quintero with Antonio Aguilar and Saby Kamalich. In television, Busquets had his debut in 1961 and continued to stay steady until 1988. He portrayed José María Morelos in the historical telenovela Los caudillos in 1968.

Acting credits

Jesús, nuestro Señor poster
7.1

Third movie in "Life of Christ" trilogy.

Jesús, nuestro Señor

1971

Another Dawn poster
6.7

The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.

Another Dawn

1943

La pequeña madrecita poster
5.7

Little girl develops her maternal instincts with dolls and with an infant cousin while family tragedies erupt over and over again around her.

La pequeña madrecita

1944

The Shadow of the Tyrant poster
7.0

In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.

The Shadow of the Tyrant

1960

The Unknown Policeman poster
7.9

A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.

The Unknown Policeman

1941

Life Sentence poster
6.8

After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.

Life Sentence

1979

México Norte poster
6.4

Remake of Pueblerina (1949). Convict is released from prison and tries to pick up his life-farm-girlfriend where he left off with them. But there are obstacles.

México Norte

1979

Demonoid poster
4.7

A British woman visits her husband at the Mexican mine he is attempting to reopen and discovers that the workers refuse to enter the mine, fearing an ancient curse. The couple enter the mine to prove there is no danger and inadvertently release a demon which possesses people's left hands and forces them to behave in a suitably diabolical manner.

Demonoid

1981

El hombre de negro poster
7.0

After his family is murdered by bandits, a young man enlists a wandering cowboy to teach him to gunsling.

El hombre de negro

1969

It's my Life poster
6.5

Alberto Aguilera arrives from Ciudad Juárez to the capital to pursue a career in music, but in the midst of confusion he is accused of stealing and is sent to prison.

It's my Life

1982

Chico Ramos poster
6.4

Western revenge drama.

Chico Ramos

1971

El cara parchada poster
5.7

Evil guy gratifies his ambitions and desires at any cost, and he prospers nicely. Until he doesn't.

El cara parchada

1980

Los dos pilletes poster
4.6

Suspicious husband deals with wife's supposed infidelity by making his toddler son disappear into the city's slums, where he grows to boyhood as a thief's apprentice.

Los dos pilletes

1942

You’re Missing the Point poster
8.2

Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.

You’re Missing the Point

1940

La Ley Del Monte poster
7.6

After etching their love on a stalk, a boy and girl reunite years later, reigniting their romance amidst the Mexican Revolution.

La Ley Del Monte

1976

The Golden Cockerel poster
7.1

A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman.

The Golden Cockerel

1964

No artwork available
NR

During the Mexican Revolution, a butcher is forced to hide stolen train gold, but his wife pushes him into murder to keep it. Sparking guilt, paranoia, and a trap that tightens around them.

The Butcher’s Wife

1969

Pedro Paramo poster
7.2

When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…

Pedro Paramo

1967

Antonieta poster
5.3

Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, who killed herself in 1931 in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris.

Antonieta

1982

The Adventures of Oliver Twist poster
6.8

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.

The Adventures of Oliver Twist

1987

No artwork available
5.8

Five criminals are arrested after a bank-robbery. One escapes, and the police officer in charge of transporting them arrests a new person at random to cover up for his negligence.

Cinco en la cárcel

1968

Presos sin culpa poster
6.0

Mexican feature film

Presos sin culpa

1981

The Crows are Grieving poster
6.3

The family of a dying man celebrates his wake while the man is still alive, showing their darker, selfish ambitions and trying to take the best part of the inheritance.

The Crows are Grieving

1965

Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna poster
5.8

Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…

Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna

1978